Mornington Crescent?!

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Will somebody please please explain to me what this is all about?

As we are up north, I think that we should move to Shildon which is near to where George Washington came from, I understand.

My knowledge of american history does not extend much further than singing the 'Star Spangled Banner' at the Colston Hall in 1976 for the American Bicentenary celebrations. Apologies for my ignorance. Boston.

Not a long journey back from Boston to the capital. Playing the disused stations rule allows me on the Piccadilly line to York Road

In the interests of balance I must with regret play Lancaster.

I was expecting Lancaster Gate. Such a long journey by Andrewofgg and even without HS2 if it is ever permitted in a game of MC.

I think that we should return to a station near to the site of the Yorkists last but one victory, but a couple of miles from Cockfosters

Cockfosters sounds like an instruction, not a station, and I decline to obey.

Since we are re-enacting the so-called Wars of the Roses, more properly called the Lancastrian Rebellion, we will all be off to Tadcaster.

Off to Tewkesbury we go, hoping not to be too long at Birmingham New Street

Thirty seconds at Birmingham New Street is sixty seconds too long. Taken as a whole, it is.

Time for an earlier outbreak of civil dissension and dynastic dispute which ended at Wallingford.

Hmm. Only

Balham

can counter that.

There is no problem to which Balham is the solution. We need sanity and safety, which we will find at Wakefield. It's just as well that Rule 207(iii) was suspended in 1969 for the Investiture and only brought back in force in its application to the Mill Hill East branch, or we would all be off to Haverford bloody West, wouldn't we

The Squadron-leader's boil burst this morning and he promises us a photo soon.

I have no wish to see the burst boil. A Mr Boli once played association football for a team in Walsall, so I think a journey to this modern new fangled station called Bescot Stadium is in order. Probably deserted at this time of year given the celebrations for the lawn tennis earlier today.

Rule 207(iii) has not been played in July since the crisis of 1955, but it is totally acceptable as there has been too much celebrating and alcohol consumption in Haverfordwest this week, I fear. As for Balham, it cannot be a solution to anything, I agree.

Well after the revelation on another thread. It has to be Ladbrooke Grove. How is Andrew doing with his eyes?

One successfully done on Wednesday last; the other to be done on Wednesday next!

After which brief but pleasing excursion into RL: we hear the Call of the Wild but the Wild can sod off. In honour of the production of the Ring Cycle at the Sage which has just finished I cry Gateshead.

Playing the pre 1945 rule I return to the capital and Palace Gates.

Well, Andrew dear, if you're going to go all Wagnerian on us ::adjusts horned headgear to a jaunty angle:: it has to be

Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof.

The capital is all very well - indeed, anyone who is tired of the capital is tired of life, as Dr Johnson so pithily observed - but travel does so broaden the mind.

I feel therefore if we are to be accompanied by classical music and pay homage to its finest operatic composers then a summer sojourn to Wien Hauptbahnhof or Vienna for those unschooled in the teutonic language is appropriate. Not music to my taste but in the interests of harmony I will make this journey, avoiding the northbound platforms of course.

If travel broadens the mind that is another reason not to travel. Let Johnny Foreigner travel here.

But on the whole I prefer to follow Mozart to Prague.

I think we have tarried long enough in Prague, or Praha to the local populous, and so we should begin the return to London. I think we have avoided Lille Flandres, or at least the eastbound platform, until now.

Returning to the bustling, vibrant metropolis in small increments

Dover Priory

If it's a bustling vibrant metropolis you want stay away from Cardiff Central.

I don't know why you hold such a grudge against the Welsh, Andrew. My great aunt Myfanwy speaks very highly of you, especially since you trumped her Highgate at the Abergavenny play-offs in '72. She couldn't go back to the eisteddfod for years. But, be that as it may. an elongated Pilkington to

Pinner

Ah, we are back in Metroland, where the original MC game in 1922 nearly ended in disaster. It so nearly could have been the beginning and the end, had the luxury Pullman coach back from Verney Junction and Aylesbury not come to the rescue of the players.

I think it is time to go to Neasden.

Maud You missed Abertillery '79 - I tried to get you a day-release pass from Styal but the Governor would not have it, something about you spoiling the soup, well, it turned out you had held a senior officer's head in it so I suppose she had a point - but your great-aunt Myfanwy's sister-in-law Blodwen was there and what happened left me with every reason to hold a grudge against the Welsh. You ask her. And insist that she owns up about the pressure cooker and the broccoli.

There is never a good time to go to Neasden and in self-defence I play Birmingham Snow Hill.

My missing Abertillery in '79 was nothing to do with my, ahem, holiday in Greater Manchester but was the result of an unfortunate incident with the tea trolley on the 4.35pm from Paddington. A gross of Chelsea buns clogged the points, the buffet car was derailed and we ended up in the sidings at Pontypridd with nary a Hackney carriage in sight, so I couldn't get there. It was good of Blodwyn to step in to fill my place, but she had a rather off day and didn't play with her usual eccentric brilliance. Sh wouldn't have dared, for example, to play a double Thompson to

Green Park

Well if Chelsea buns are the order of the day or their memories are brought back, we'd better move to Sloane Square. Abertillery in 79 was a moment I was absent from, unfortunately, owing to issues near Neasden detaining me.